So you just found your way to SDA from some other site, or maybe you've been reading the Quake news for years. You'd like to get some of the thousands of quake demos we have to offer, but you don't want to have to click the links for each one, probably waiting for 30 minutes a piece on FilePlanet for each individual demo. Well now there's another way: Download all demos at once! You'll find a big .dz file that's 939MB which contains all 7004 speed runs listed in the tables up to June 30th. That means the things from the last couple updates aren't actually there, but every 3 months or so I'll put together the next pack of demos. The page also contains a zip of all maps listed at sda, a 200MB download but it's a lot faster than clicking all those darn map links. Hope you enjoy.

It's a rare honour indeed for a single demo to be given its own update. I'll probably be offending someone (Stubby?) when I say that Peter's e4m2 NH is the only other demo I remember being given this treatment.

What am I talking about? Jozsef Szalontai has improved a long ago optimised (oh, how weak that term seems now) record, the Nightmare Run of Hell's Atrium by Markus Taipale. 0:10 seemed impossible to everyone. Joe has now done 0:09.

What more is there to say? Except MUST DOWNLOAD! :-)

All demos download for this update is available here.

As is starting to be a bit of a tradition around here, we're going to begin with this weeks improvements to the Nightmare Run of Azure Agony. Connor Fitzgerald has fought back in his war for this record and added the shambler boost to Kay's new route which saved one more second to 0:49. Then a couple of hours working out the wrinkles gave him a quite superb 0:48. There's still talk of more boosts (even boosts up the lift!!) so maybe, just maybe, this isn't over yet...

Rickard Axelsson has made one of his rare excursions into the realms of single player and improved Pif's Nightmare Run of royalwar by three seconds to 0:45. You get so used to seeing Rickard as part of a coop team it's easy to forget that he's also a very good single player player, if you see what I mean. :-)

Luc and Pif de Mestre have made a shocking discovery: sm27_xenon is idealy suited for a little coop play...

• Choose a rune and rune like crazy! That's the key to this 0:18 Easy Run.
• Much the same, but harder to stay alive, in this 0:18 Nightmare Run.
• Luckily, with a rocket launcer, a SNG and plenty of ammo the Easy 100% is just a matter of kill, KILL, KILL. They finished the killing in 0:35.
• And the Nightmare 100% in 0:36.

Finally, a couple of coops starring everyone's new favourite player... Mattias Öman!

• He dragged Joakim Sarkkinen and Johan Halden into the SDA fold to perform the Easy 100% of bfinal in the Nightmare 100% equaling time of 0:31. Welcome to hell, guys!
• then it was time for a family teamup with Jonny Andersson and a Fleck&Waggy bashing Easy 100% of e1m1rmx in 0:37, one ultra-smooth second faster.

For those of you that aren't in the habit of checking out the Other Games page you've been missing some real treats lately. RandomEngy has just sent in his new HalfLife run, Andrew Bolton did a supercool Zero Mission Normal any% run and Red Scarlet dared to mock the balls of the Super Metroid 100%. There's tons of other new stuff too, I just mention those three because they're the only ones I've managed to drag down my poor, overworked modem. Go see!

Always end on a whinge, that's what I was taught. So listen up. Sort your fucking text files out. As much as we love receiving demos it's a total pain for us if you label them wrong, get the names wrong, get the times wrong, get the skill wrong, etc. It's not exactly difficult!!

For those of you (and it's the vast majority) that do the .txt files properly I'm sorry for moaning. For those of you that think it's okay to just put any old crap in and we'll sort it out for you, please try a little harder.

We'll always love you anyway.

All demos download for this update is available here.

Phew! What a demo we have to start off this update. Only last week Connor took the Azure Agony Nightmare Run from Markus. Could even the world's fastest bunnyhopper, Kay Berntsen, move fast enough to cut a whole second off of the time? The answer is... NO! But what Connor and Markus and Joe and Alex and Flecker and Xenon and Yonatan and Nolan had overlooked is that with an early quad and some assistance from our slimy, blue, exploding buddies there is a whole new route to be taken. I won't say much more, just watch this 0:50 and be amazed. Also note how much health he has. Surely there's scope for at least one more boost...

How did Ripah follow this up? By optimising two of Joe's old records! He improved both the Eaperform the Easy 100%sy Run and the Nightmare Run of crypt by one second to 0:17 and 0:18 respectively.

Pif de Mestre has been doing a spot of table filling. Why are there still gaps in the table to be filled? Because some runs are officially classified as "bastard hard". It is towards these that Pif has turned his attention.

• Two naked grenade jumps with deathnight fire all around you followed by some close quarter killing is the reason nobody has previously sent in a Nightmare Run of gmsp3. Pif did a fairly crappy 1:34 and soon afterwards a much, much nicer 1:22. I tried this run some time ago and could never, EVER get past the last vore without taking a hit (and dying). Nice work.
• Then he waded his way through the pain-a-rama that is the could Nightmare Run, taking a longer but safer route than the Easy Run and clocking in a resectable 1:52.

Luc de Mestre wasn't going to let his brother hog all the glory and he turned in a could Nightmare 100% in 7:16. A little messy in the warehouse area but quite a solid demo all round. He also mentions that it's faster than his previous demo but this is in fact the first ever NH on this map we've received. Maybe he forgot to send the previous one, maybe it got lost. Who knows, just enjoy this demo and try not to think about it...

In a related matter, it appears that our e-mail is working quite well at the moment and we THINK that we're up to date with the demos now. So, if you've sent us a demo over the last few weeks and it hasn't made it into an update yet then the chances are it's been lost and you should resend it. Thanks to everyone of you for your patience and understanding over the last few weeks of technical mishap.

On to the coops, starting with a three-man Nightmare 100% of bfinal by Mattias Öman, Christian Tornberg and Mikael Carlsson. The "new wave of Udder mayhem" slaughtered the vores and exited in a time of 0:31. (Mattis: we received the other demo but it arrived too late to be included in this update. Despite what I said above there is no need to send it in again...)

We'll finish off today with a round dozen coop demos from Daniel Hansson and Jonny Andersson.

• They made a hugely impressive one second improvement to their Nightmare 100% of The Slipgate Complex getting a 0:40. Check out Daniel's awesome mega health grab. :-)
• They also owned Nolan and Justin's Nightmare 100% of The Installation by one second (okay, so one second isn't really an "owning" but since it's July 4th I'm going to say the Americans were owned...) to 0:58.
• Then along came Mattias Öman (who, as EVERYONE knows, is Jonny's brother) and they all got down to some dirty three player action.
• Back to The Slipgate Complex for another Nightmare 100%. They managed to get 0:31, one second faster than Daniel, Jonny and Daniel.
• Next stop was The Necropolis and an Easy 100% in 0:34, three second faster than the same lot as in the previous demo. Check out the egg demo that comes with this one for some sweet accidental boosting. :-)
• Time for a swim in The Grizzly Grotto and a four second improvement to Evan, Cameron and Nolan's Easy 100% to 0:37. They make it all look so easy...
• On to episode two and The Underearth for an Easy 100% to 0:51, two seconds faster than Windy, Opti and Raddy. Jonny's grenade work in this is pin-point accurate taking out five seperate scrags in five grenades. Not bad at all.
• The Wind Tunnels provided them with a mild distraction, allowing them to take the time to improve the Pflug/Fleck/Wagner Easy 100% by five whole seconds to 0:49. A really classy piece of coop with lots of clever boosts, discharge gibs and split second timing at the end.
• Their final id demo was an Easy 100% of The Elder God Shrine in 0:46, two seconds fast than Ilkka, Will and Ingmar. Although this is very good indeed they all made one mistake (Daniel missed a boost off a knight, Jonny missed an easy bunny across the water and Mattias seemed to forget that he had a grenade launcher) so it's definitely, if not easily, improveable.
• What next? A fun little trip to pb1 and a double-vertical-SSG boost to save five seconds over Nolan, Josh and Warrens time to 0:18.
• Then they somehow improved the legendary EH3 of e1m1rmx that Evan, Nolan and I made a while ago by six seconds to 0:32.
• Finally it was time for Daniel Andersson to show his face and the four of them just about succeeded in making a slight improvement to (check out these names!) Gunnar, Justin, Ilkka and Gerald's The Installation Easy 100%. And the result? Six year old internet MadCoop: 0:54. 2004 LAN MadCoop 0:32, twenty two seconds faster.

I'm getting out of here, this place is starting to smell funny.

All demos download for this update is available here.

The sun is out! The sky is blue! For the first time in two weeks it's not raining! What better time to sit in front of a PC and write an update could!

We did have a choice of really great demos to start off the update, but then one arrived that really left no choice. Would Connor Fitzgerald please step forward...

When a record has been the subject of a fight between Jozsef and Markus and they have decided that the battle is over you can be sure that it's going to take something quite special to improve. We saw it a month ago when Kay took the Azure Agony Easy Run from Joe, and now Connor has gone and done the same thing to the even more intense Nightmare Run, improving it by one second over Markus' time to an amazing 0:51. Just how did he save the time? Well, you can see for yourself as included in the all demos download (above) is a recam of Connor's demo with Markus magically[1] added in.

Praise be to Ripah, because his recent work on scream has prompted Jozsef Szalontai to dust off his speedrunning jockstrap and recapture his Easy Run in what looks like an optimum 0:14, one second faster than Kay. Great to see you still have all the moves, Joe.

He may have come out second to Joe in the last demo but Kay Berntsen took a win over Timo by beating his contest winning Easy Run on sm27_xenon by one second to get 0:20. You've got to love the mid-air-shambler-lightning-assisted-wall-rocket-boost.

Then, just for the sport of it, he improved Basil's Nightmare Run by one second to 0:22. The difficulty in trying to avoid slowdown from nightmare shambler lightning is plain to see.

Next up we have the mighty legend that is Robert Axelsson. He sampled the beautiful eastern flavours of kjspq1 and slope jumped his way to a vore-ball dodging 0:55, three seconds faster than Wim.

Jonny Andersson has, apparently, spent most of the last week with his genetalia clamped in a vice. Why? Who knows! Some kind of wierd Udder ritual I expect. Do you know the first thing he did when got out? He improved the Easy 100% on Attila's old map, csa. He managed to ignore the fullbright glare and clocked in a time of 1:32, 10 seconds faster than Stefan.

The other day in #qdq someone was telling me that Mattias Öman is some sort of relation to Jonny Andersson. I can't quite remember who told me or what the relationship was because I was steaming drunk at the time, but if this is true then it's probably safe to assume that he too has an exceptional set of scrotal tackle. But what to call him? Assuming that he's younger than Jonny then Little Balls, or L-B, might fit. That's a bit insulting, though, so I think that Balls Jnr, or B-J, could be what we're looking for. Anyway, B-J did the Nightmare 100% of e1m1rmx in 1:19, five seconds faster than Rickard.

Oh shit. Look at the time. I have a plane to catch. All the rest of the demos follow in "fucking fast" format.

Robert and Rickard Axelsson

• Zigurrat Vertigo Nightmare Run in 0:24. BRILLIANT
• dmc1m6 Nightmare 100% in 1:18, four seconds faster than Luc and Pif.
• dmc1m6 Easy 100% in 1:12, three seconds faster than Luc and Pif.
• evilpool Nightmare 100% in 0:35, ten seconds faster than Luc and Pif.
• evilpool Easy 100% in 0:33, ten seconds faster than Luc and Pif.
• sm57_pulsar_se Nightmare Run in 0:13.
• con1 Nightmare 100% in 0:16, one second faster than Luc and Pif.

Mattias Öman and Christian Tornberg on coopmine

• They weren't going to put up with any guff from Hansson and Andersson and recaptured their Easy Run by two seconds to 1:16.
• Also, the Nighmare 100% in 1:48.
• Then Mikael Carlsson joined them to make his first ever SDA records.
  • The Easy 100% in 1:44.
  • And the Nightmare 100% in 1:41.

I'm away for a few days now. So is Stubby. Contact Lowdis, mwh or Radix if you need anything. :-)

#end of update

[1] It wasn't actually magic. It was done using demix e4m7_052 : e4m7_051 : 1-2 then changing the default_colormap on entity 2 from 1 to 0. I mention this in case anyone wants to do something similar to other demos. :-)

All demos download for this update is available here

Well, folks. I'm back again. Things have been unbelievably hectic here at Castle Morfans for the last week or two and there's no sign of things settling down for the next week. Big thanks to Stubby for updating the demos last week but this week, as a very wise man once said, all your updates are belong to me!

And what a huge amount of demos we have for you! Mostly from Daniel Hansson and Jonny Andersson, who are certainly on a roll at the moment, but also from some familiar faces, some not so familiar faces and one completely new face. I was going to regale you with a humourous anecdote or two from my time away but since we have thirty-six demos to get through I'd better just stick to them.

cbfspq1 has had a very popular week, even for a new map. Connor, you must be proud... :-)

• It looked like the Easy Run was pretty much optimised unless anyone could find a new route. Kay Berntsen did exactly that and used a series of five bunnies to build up enough speed to do a new, one second saving, long jump and get a 0:26.
• After a little more practise he realised that he only needed three bunnies to make the jump and so saved another second to 0:25.
• The Nightmare Run was a display of P-B and his ogre jumping skillz all the way. Starting with this 0:30.
• Which he tidied up to 0:29 later that day.
• Then, following his traditional evening onanistic ritual, he realised that the quad would probably save a little time. This flash of post-masturbatory insight allowed him to score a 0:26.
• Next morning he improved the time once again by another two seconds to 0:24.
• He wasn't slack when it came to the Easy 100% either, starting things off with a pretty ropey 0:36.
• Which soon hardened into a 0:30.
• Time for Daniel to join Jonny for the first of their coop demos. Starting with a shotgun boost and some nifty grenade work to secure the Easy run in 0:15.
• The Easy 100% took just one second longer at 0:16 with Daniel having to do a lot more work this time and Jonny dying like a dick.
• With a friendly ogre to help with getting the GL the Nighmare Run took them a mere 0:13. Very nice.

I need a break from Jonny waving his pretty ones in my face so let's see what people have been up to on e1m1rmx.

• For some reason which nobody can be bothered to look into Stubby and Radix couldn't play Rickard Axelsson's 0:34 Nightmare Run tablefiller so he gamely agreed to redo it. He got a 0:31. :-)
• But soon after Mathias Thore took the time down to 0:29. If anything, the incidental grunt fire that hits you during this run is even worse than in the original map.
• Rickard wasn't going to be left recordless on this map without a fight and turned in a 1:24 Nightmare 100% with some very nice route planning.

Right. Back to Cyborg and P-B for a while...

• Starting with a one second improvement to their already excellent Nightmare 100% of e1m1 to 0:41. Damn these guys are good!
• The only coop demo ever on a2d2 was a 1:15 Easy 100% by Stefan and Mathias. The Swedes improved the German's time by eleven seconds to 1:04.
• Next to fall was Robert and Rickard's Easy Run of rpgsp1 which they beat by two seconds to 0:27.
• More vintage R&R bashing followed as they took four seconds off the Easy Run of mexx3 to get 0:30. Fast, accurate boosting all the way.
• Controversy next as we bring you a long-way Easy Run of harmsway in 1:20. Why is this controvercial? Well, they did this demo a couple of weeks ago but we said it wasn't valid as it broke the spirit of a "long-way" run in that the person going through the teleport should be the one to exit. Earlier this week, though, they convinced Stubby in a conversation in #qdq that since Robert and Rickard's old demo had them exiting in this way, and that was valid, their demo should be valid. That all sounds fair enough until you check the tables and see that Robert and Rickard have never done a demo on this map! Still, Stubby did tell them it would be included and it wasn't their fault he didn't see through their bare-faced lie so here it is. Just pray you never meet Radix on a cold, dark night. His wrath will be awful! :-)
• On a brighter note, they gave the Easy Run of czg02 that Daniel did with DanielA a good stuffing, taking the exit time down by eight seconds to 1:33. Everyone laugh at Hansson for missing the OG jump!
• alpha001 gave the chaps three demos. Two coop and a single player.
  • Since they hadn't yet handed any humiliating defeats to the Americans they started my improving Evan and Justin's Easy 100% by one second to 0:25.
  • Then with a quick Wag of their Flecker they improved the Nightmare 100% by two seconds to 0:37.
  • P-B decided to have a try at the Nightmare 100% on his own and succeeded in improving Marlo's time by one second to 1:01.
• armorgod gave the chaps three demos. Two coop and a single player. This time, however, it was Hansson that struck out on his own (to own).
  • In order to keep the "international ownage" theme going they turned their attention to Finland and the Easy Run by Ilkka and Juho, adding lots more bunny and boost to improve the time by two seconds to 0:12.
  • Exactly the same for the Nightmare Run. 0:12.
  • Daniel then attacked Ilkka's Easy Run and performed the "single player coop vore kill" one second faster to get 0:23.
• And finally, three demos on polygon2.
  • Another piece of playing fast and loose with the spirit of the log-way rule saw a five second saving over R&R's Nightmare Run to 0:12.
  • Which they then improved by a very impressive two seconds to 0:10.
  • They also improved Robert and Rickard's Easy Run by two seconds to 0:17. Nothing "clever" this time, just pure, unadulterated speed!
• When I was beta-testing the DMC maps for Connor one of the things I did was to make sure there were no exit trigger leaks. Seems I did a crap job though because...
  • Daniel "Oh yes, I AM the Cyborg" Hansson found a tiny gap in the bars on dmc1m4 and exploited it to get an optimum 0:05 Nightmare Run, seventeen seconds faster than Kay's PROPER run.
  • Jonny "It's true. They really are very, very pretty" Andersson very kindly did the Easy Run to prevent us getting 1000 0:05's. Fifteen seconds faster than Kay.

Can the world stand any more demos from Uddevala? It seems we have no choice because a rival faction of Udders has been larging it down the coopmine.

• Mattias Öman and Christian Tornberg did their first demo in AGES and improved DanielH and DanielA's Easy run by six seconds to 1:24.
• And then to 1:22.
• But then Daniel and Daniel Andersson heard about these goings on and put the upstarts in their place with a 1:18 recapture.
• Mattias and Christian didn't let this deter them from making this 1:21 Nightmare Run...
• ...Or this 1:47 Easy 100%. Good work!
• They also sent in a three player demo but due to the problems detailed below it's not going to appear until the next update.

Problems? Yes. E-mail problems. Planetquake e-mail is experiencing a few difficulties at the moment so if you've sent us a demo it's quite possible we haven't received it. So until further notice please follow one of these courses...

1. After sending your mail get on IRC and go to #qdq on quakenet and ask any of the Ops if it's arrived. If it hasn't you can probably DCC it to one of us (preferably Stubgaard).
2. If you're not that bothered if it turns up in the next update then do nothing, and if we haven't posted it after a week or two send again.
3. If you're concerned that your demo hasn't arrived and can't use IRC for some reason then e-mail Stubby directly on stubgaard (at) sol.dk but please use this as a last resort as it's his private mail and only has very limited space.

And that, as they say, is that! Keep those demos coming!

All demos download for this update is available here

Seems like you guys will have to put up with me and my non-wordy updates for the time being. So here goes...

Let's start off with demos on the new map, cbfspq1:

• Kay Berntsen was the first man to tackle this map on easy skill. He ran, or shot rather, his way through the map in fine style to get 0:32, soon after Jonny Andersson did this 0:31, then Thomas Bergendorff followed with a 0:29, and finally Jonny again with this 0:28. Can anyone think up a faster route?

Next map to get some attention is polygon2:

• Daniel Hansson improved Jonny's Easy Run of the 'long way' by 3 second to get 0:31, soon after followed 0:30 and 0:29. Daniel Andersson followed up by improving Jonny's Nightmare Run of the 'long way' by 1 second to 0:20. Are you going to fight back Jonny?

Harmsway got some attention too this week:

• Jonny improved his Easy Run of the 'long way' by 4 seconds to 1:33, DanielH joined the fight and got 1:31 and soon after a 1:30.

Demos on scream:

• Kay improved Jozsef's Easy Run by 1 second to 0:15, and Weixing's Nightmare Run by 2 seconds to get 0:16. Nice!

Demos on various maps:

• Following an idea by me (one gets to brag when one can, right?!), Connor Fitzgerald improved Jozsef's Nigthmare Run of coagula2 by 1 second to 0:08! Get this!
• Robert Axelsson improved Justin's Nightmare Run of pg2 by 70 (!) seconds to get 1:54.
• Carl Tholin did the Nightmare 100% tablefiller on hostile to get 3:15.
• DanielH improved Richard's Nightmare 100% of royalwar by 6 seconds to 1:36.
• Evan Wagner and Justin Fleck teamed up to do the Easy 100% of ikspq5 in 0:55, 3 seconds better than DanielH/Carl.
• The yanks also did the Easy 100% of e1m1rmx in 0:38, same time as the 3 player EH. Rickard Axelsson sent in a Nightmare Run on that map too, but the demo was borked, so could you please re-send Rickard?
• DanielH and Jonny teamed up to do the Easy Run of networld in 0:59, 1 second better than their previous record.

Another demo just came in: ThomasB improved the Easy Run of cbfspq1 to get 0:27. Sweeeet!

And that marks the end of this wondrous update! Hopefully either Morfans or Evan will be back for the next demo update, I'm better off doing all the behind the scenes work :-)

Hello there people, long time no see! Anyways, I'm just dropping by to post a new map by Connor Fitzgerald, called Ariadne's Thread. I'm sure quite a few of you will get a kick out of running this. There's so many route choices it gave me a headache just thinking about it! Name your demos for this map cb1. Maybe it would be a good idea to post a link for the map wouldn't it? GO FETCH!.

A demo update will follow soon(ish). Morfans is away on personal matters, and Evan is lost in his own little Diablo 2 dimension, so I can't really say exactly when it'll happen, maybe I'll even do one myself! */me shrugs at the thought*

what's this?

UPDATE: FilePlanet seems to be somewhat screwy at the moment, so I've put the new map here (temporary link). Also, if you've sent a demo to SDA, chances are that we might not have received it, as our mail is being screwy too! *sigh*

All demos download for this update is available here

It's 05:00 AM, I can't sleep, no one wants to coop so let's get this update started! New maps first, as usual.

After the rush of bunny madness on e1m1rmx things have quietened down. Only one demo so far this week but it's maybe the best demo we've ever had on the map simply because it has ME in it and my ego is quite colossal where these things are concerned. I sat in on a coop with Evan Wagner and Nolan Pflug with them doing all the work and me lag-lurching my way slowly towards a couple of the secrets in this 0:38 Easy 100%.

Experience is showing us all that Fucking Hostile is living up to it's name since there are still no Nightmare demos done on the map. But both Easy skill disciplines have been given a thorough tally-whacking.

• Carl "Look, I really am NOT Cyborg! Okay??" Tholin did the Easy 100% in 2:35. That's all I have to say because I didn't actually watch the demo.
• Why didn't I watch it? Because very soon afterwards he sent in this 2:31, and after enjoying his slick quad work and nimble rocketry it seemed futile to go back and watch a slower demo.
• No offence meant to any of the other demos being posted here but if we had a "demo of the week" award then this next one would win it. Connor Fitzgerald improved his Easy Run by three seconds to 1:03. Everything after the first twenty seconds is pretty much identical to last time. It's all down to how he gets the silver key. Oh man, you just have to see this. That key gets Horvathed!

One short week ago I captured the royalwar Easy 100%. Already Daniel Hansson has shown what an amateur I am by improving it again by eleven seconds to 1:14. One totally obvious route change saves five, the rest is just better running. If he takes the NH as well I'll eat his fava beans with some liver. Or something.

Speaking of cannibals, Weixing Ye is once again making his presence felt with a demolition job on his old Easy 100% of scream. The chinese flesh eater took seven seconds off his old time to get 0:57.

You can feel it, can't you. You can just tell we have a bunch of Udder demos coming up in just a few seconds. You can almost smell it. But first we have two throat-ripping demos by two great players on unrestricted RDE levels.

• I don't think there was a single person in #qdq who didn't w00t when Thomas Stubgaard said he was going to try a few 100% demos in this episode. He's proving to be as good as his word with this 1:32 Nightmare 100% of rd1m1, six seconds faster than Carl's no-bunny version. Is there anyone, anywhere that doesn't hate those raptors?
• If it's bunnies you're after then who ya gonna call? Really it comes down to two choices: the thing that delivers the easter eggs and Kay Berntsen. Since the Easter bunny is tatally shite at Quake it's left to Ripah to show the world what true speed is all about. He improved David's Easy Run of rd1m3 by two seconds to 0:34.

The Udderisation starts with Daniel Hansson, Carl Tholin and Jonny Andersson laughing in the faces of Evan, Justin and Nolan by improving their Easy 100% of The Crypt of Decay by one second to 0:47.

Daniel and Jonny don't really like Carl so they ditched him and improved their Easy run of escape by two more seconds to 0:42.

They then improved the Easy 100% of rwa1 that Hansson did with the other Daniel a couple of years ago to 0:41, six seconds faster.

By this point P-B had decided that even Daniel was getting on his nerves and so he slapped him into a stupor and finished off with two demos on his own.

• He stayed on rwa1 and improved his Easy 100% by six seconds with a lot of blind grenade killing to 0:51.
• To finish off he improved DanielA's long way Easy Run of harmsway by two seconds to 1:37.

And finally, congratulations to Ankhgod you won our "who can get hit 444444" contest the other week. He wins the amazing prize of having his name mentioned in bolded yellow near the beginning of this paragraph!

SDA:The crappiest prizes on the whole of the internet, or your money back!

All demos download for this update is available here

That's right, I'm a lazy Diablo 2-addicted punk and don't quite feel like updating, but have to before it gets too late. So I'm going to keep the old SDA tradition alive and do a crap-update. Brace yourselves for full fledged crapness.

Richard Skidmore has shown us (not to mention Luc & Hannu) the light with a couple excellent of runs.

• Hannu's easy 100% was first to be Skid-marked by 5 seconds, resulting in this very nicely played 1:25.
• Luc's just recently submitted 2:15 was next to fall victim by a painful 39 second wound! Some route adjustments yielded this great time of 1:42.

There has been some great action going on with the e1m1rmx easy run lately. First Connor sent in a quite impressive 0:24, getting a nice little grunt boost in it. Kay figured he would sport his bunny skills and didn't use a grunt boost, but shaved a second off to get this Berntsterrific 0:23.

sm57_pulsar_se has generated quite the spark lately. As evident below.

• Connor Fitzgerald found a sweet new way to do the ogre grenade jump, by cutting the quantity in half! This has to be the highest single non-ramp-induced ogre grenade jump to date! Of course Nolan or some Quake genious will probably calculate the exact height coordinates of the jump, and then find one higher. Well I say meh to you. Anyways, Fitzies two spectacular runs!
  • Kay's previous Easy run was shockingly cut down by 3 seconds to this 0:13 with the new "Horvath Manoeuvre" in full effect.
  • Ten whole seconds were destroyed from Daniel's nightmare run to this 0:15. Connor says the nightmare yielded the easiest ogre grenade jump, I shall go try this Godly jump :-)
  
  
• Daniel Hansson took to the hollow-record-spot of the pulsar easy 100% with this very clean 1:36. Where'd those three monsters go?!?!
• And finally some much needed coops on this map by Daniel and Carl. The easy run was of course in order to be spanked, coming out unscathed with this 0:11. Also the two did an easy 100% run to the tune of 1:05. Uddered.

Woot woot, some demos on hostile.

• Carl "I'm not cyborg" Tholin first showed his tattered mug, bringing forth this easy run in 1:44, but he felt bad about the demo being so horrible, so he quickly improved it to 1:15.
• Connor said "no candoo" to Stolen-Tholin and cut nine hairs off the ballsack to this 1:06.

Robert and Rickard Axelsson come for the booze, and stay for the food. The Axelmen found a nice new idea and improved Luc and Pif's easy run of m_palace by 6 seconds to this 0:40.

Mad coop time, this time from the likes of Daniel Hansson, Carl Tholin, and Johan Nilsson! The 3 player easy 100% of rd1m3 was filled in with this enjoyable 0:53.

Oh, Carl and Daniel improved me and Fleck's easy 100% of ikspq5 by 5 seconds to get this 0:58. Damn you guys :-)

I guess that update wasn't TOO terrible. Sheesh, I can't even screw up right!

All demos download for this update is available here

At the time of writing this fileplanet borked up a lot of demo links. If demo links don't work, it's Fileplanet's fault - please download the all-demo .dz above.

Shelter your salami and tauten up your testes because we have quite the flecktastic update for you all today! In the couple of days since Lord Bergie posted the new maps, our mailboxes have been flooding with new demos (well, flooding for us). And no, CZG & Vondur didn't really make a speed run - I only said that to set in motion the thin probability of them sending one in someday. Why you ask? Because if their speed running is at all like their maps, we are due for anoter Horvath-ulation. Also to quench my curiousity of why more mappers don't speed run. Come on guys, give it a try - it won't kill you to really play your maps.

Speaking of CZG and Vondur, the artistically-evil brush laying duo recently made a remix level to Quake's E1M1, fittingly titled e1m1rmx. This remix map is almost identical to E1M1 in its textures and monster/item/secret placement - however, its architechtual face has got a complete makeover, now looking ten times better - and I swear it feels a bit bigger to :-) Right, with that out of the way, here's the goodies you have all come for.

The e1m1rmx runs came as follows.

• My favorite Frenchie Pif de Mestre quickly hopped to it with this 0:28. Oh, Pif, stay away from my girlfriend Alizee will ya!?!
• Jonny Andersson was next to surface, carrying to shore this 0:27 then drowning it for this sharp 0:26. Why do I get the feeling Kay or Connor is going to be the one to send in a 0:25?
• I sat my near-clinically-insane ass down and got down and funky with the easy 100%, first getting this 1:07. Later I modified the route a bit and came up with this wagtastic 0:58. More Wagner than you can stomach.

Next level for proper Flecktimization was sm57_pulsar_se. And quite the purity and quantity of Fleckness we have for you on this map.

• It's easy run time biatch!
  • The man, the myth, the legend; Chris Ploran conjured up the fern-goodness to this level first. He gave a go at the easy run, coming out with this 0:26 to get the ball rolling.
  • But Jonny Andersson was trailing close behind and layed the 2 second smack-down with this 0:24, then shortly after getting this 0:23.
  • The man once called "The Swedish Evan" by a liquored-up Fleck, Daniel Hansson is back up in this joint and kicking another 2 seconds off the time to this 0:21.
  • Think that's all? Hardly. Kay Berntsten figured he would show Hansson who the new boss was around here, knocking 5 seconds off to get this awesome 0:16.
• How about those nightmare demos.
  • Fern came back to take a puff of the nightmare run, making a 0:35, then a 0:32, and finally a 0:30.
  • Then Mr Hansson struck back with this purty little 5 second improvement, resulting in a 0:25.

Now that we have covered the new levels, let's take a look at the standard crop of demos. Starting first with Justin and my demos, because I feel like it!

Big Fleck and I, fresh from our Diablo 2 binging, first pointed our peculiar interests towards dmc1m5. Justin told me he just had to 'own' Morfans by helping me improve the recent EH coop we had made by ten seconds to this zippy little 0:30. We also did the nightmare 100% in a not so charming time of 0:42, but hey, it's a record.

Next to receive a full Fleckwags treatment was ikspq1. Leekwen and I planned this nightmare 100% route out originally, but never managed to get it done. After a brief period of trial and error Fleck and I managed to record a violent little 1:18.

Its that time again! UDDER TIME!

• Daniel Hansson and Carl Tholin made a sweet 9 second improvement to the easy run marathon of episode 1, getting this 2:12. Good show!
• Johan Nilsson then joined the two to make this 3-player nightmare 100% of rd1m1 to this raptorific time of 0:59, a four second improvement.
• Daniel Hansson took to those funky Rogue levels and improved his easy run of r1m1 by two seconds to get this great time of 1:14. Woah, I used to hold this record.

Weixing Ye just couldn't stay idle while there was more potential on that lovely map ac. The Ye-master improved his old record by an unholy margin, getting this 3:05. Weixing wasn't finished yet, however, and later banged out this 2:56 which unfortunatly didn't make it into the all demos download.

That fantabulous rookie-runner Connor Fitzgerald has found some precious free time to devote to his true love, Quake. This time around he shaved two seconds off of Jozsef's easy run of rd1m4, coming out with this 0:27. Will Joe stand for this? :-)

The amphetamine-injected bunny rabbit that is Kay Berntsten trimmed a second off of Amrik's easy run of rd1m1, shatting out this time of 0:40. He then goes on about how 0:39 is possible, Amrik?

Daniel Magnusson has blessed us with another demo, and quite the demo it is! He knocked a whole 22 seconds off of Stubby's nightmare 100% marathon of episode 1, ending up with this really nice 11:31. Don't expect the record to hang around too long, not when improving one of the Great Dane's records :-)

Speaking of the drunken Dane, Thomas Stubgaard also joined the Runners Delight madness and knocked out this easy 100% (unrestricted bunnies) table-filler to the tune of 1:14.

Ferndaddy, or Chris Ploran has one more demo for our punk asses. He cut one second off of Arturo's nightmare run of oblivion, resulting in this 0:19.

Last but not least, we have some SP action from Luc de Mestre. Luc took to the rather strange royalwar, improving his previous nightmare 100% by 2 seconds to get 2:21.

Good God. I need a bong rip after that update. Be gone with yee!

I just couldn't figure the l33tspeak for neither "Y" nor "P"...which is just as well since it's all bollocks anyway.

Right, let's get down to business, and finish off this update quickly. The whole planetquake site complex smells awful since Morfys mishap in the last update... You really should change your underwear after an accident like that...you're not THAT different in Scotland. Oh wait, you shag sheep, like to wear skirts and eat boiled innards. I think we can all agree on you being slightly....peculiar.

Now, your favourite dane (probably because you don't happen to know more than one), Stubby has been harrassing me about adding maps. And he's right! We need more maps. So I thought I'd give you three to practise your skills on (no, not you Kay, if you bunny any faster your feet will catch fire)...

• The Slipgate Duplex (e1m1rmx) by the deadly duo of CZG/Vondur. Please call your demos x1m1_xxx. Download here.
• F**king Hostile (hostile) by J.F.Gustafsson (the maker of the black episode). Please call your demos hos_xxx. Download here.
• The Lair Of DOOMestic Animals (sm57_pulsar_se) by Pulsar (he's another one of them russians I think, mad as a hatter). Please call your demos s57p_xxx. Download here.

These maps are a bit longer, none of these will done done in under 20 secs (someone will probably prove me wrong just to annoy me...would be one of them udders most likely), but they are all very good maps that play well. Good luck and have fun!

...Saturday is update day! At least this week it is. And if anyone else out there is old enough to understand what the hell I'm talking about I'll eat my own trousers in a garlic and cheese sauce. THAT'S a promise!

Unfortunately we don't have any demos for you this week so I'll just mention that over on the Other Games page this week we've had a Halflife improvement, a Metroid Prime low% improvement and three new games I've never heard of, and then that's the end of the update.

Only kidding. Did I fool you? Huh? :-)

All demos download for this update is available here

We'll start with yet another in our series of "Bloody hell, are people still improving the original id map records after all these years?" demos. It's been a while since Daniel Hansson made an id improvement but if anyone was doubting that he still has what it takes then they should take a look at this Wind Tunnels Easy 100% in 1:21, two seconds faster than before. Very smooth, very sweet.

Most of the rest of the demos link together quite nicely, as you will see. We saw Daniel in our first demo, now we see him teamed up with Carl Tholin for a little coop action on guard. They made mincemeat of Marlo and Fabian's Easy 100% record with a four second improvement to 0:34.

Seems like Carl took quite a shine to the level because he stayed there for a while and produced two high quality demos.

• He improved DanielM's Nightmare Run by three seconds to 0:33.
• Then, just as little boys show that they fancy little girls by pulling their hair and being horrible to them and stuff, he showed his undying devotion to Marvin by improving his Easy 100% by one second to 0:48.

It's a well known fact that Carl is the Runner's Delight master, having TO of every single map in the episode. But that only applies to the regular, no bunny version. The unrestricted bunny version still has a lot of empty slots in it but thanks to Robert Axelsson the unrestricted Nightmare Run of rd1m1 now has a champion. He exited six seconds faster than the restricted record in a time of 0:43. There's still plenty of gaps in the unrestricted tables just waiting for the new wave of runners to discover this superb episode. Go fill!

Trying to find a link between Robert and the next batch of demos isn't as easy as I thought it would be but since I'm not the kind of person to let truth and common sense come between me and an update theme I'm just going to pretend that "Axelsson" is the Swedish equivalent of the American name "Fleck", which very conveniently brings us on to Justin Fleck. This week he has given us two improvements to the 100%s on ikspq5.

• He improved his Easy 100% by four seconds to 1:47. Never waste grenades killing things when you could use them for jumping UNLESS you can kill and jump at the same time. :-)
• I know Nightmare is suppossed to be harder than Easy, but swapping half the grunts in the end room for shamblers is just outrageous. That didn't stop Optic improving the record by eight more seconds to 2:45.

Still not done with ikspq5, The Fleckster teamed up with Evan Wagner to lay the ownage smackdown on Hansson and Tholin by five seconds with this 1:02 Easy 100%.

Windlash also found time in his punishing Diablo 2 schedule this week to team up with Me for a mega-ping Easy 100% of dmc1m5 Easy 100% in 0:40, seven seconds faster than the single player time. Evan did most of the work as I just tried to stay pointing in the right direction. :-)

Ooooohhh. I've just noticed the hit counter! It seems we're approaching 444444 hits and such a number deserves some sort of... something. So if you're the lucky visitor then take a screenshot and send it in (a nice, small JPEG or .png preferably) and you could win... A MENTION IN THE NEXT UPDATE!!

SDA : Home of the greatest prizes on the entire internet. Yeah!

Finally, and having absolutely no link to the previous demo, we have a Nightmare Run tablefiller on ac from Weixing Ye. It seems that the humour bug is running strong in Weixing's blood at the moment as he reached the exit of this long and very tough level in 5:52, but then stood there waiting for over three minutes so that he could exit in 8:56, one second faster than the Nightmare 100%. I'm sorry if mentioning it here spoils the "joke" somewhat but on the other hand I've just saved you three minutes of your life that you otherwise would have wasted trying to figure out why he wasn't moving. Now, Mr Ye, go and do it properly! :-)

I laughed so hard at that last demo that I soiled my undergarments and so that brings this update to a rather unpleasant (from where I'm sitting) conclusion. You all stay safe until next time, y'hear?

All demos download for this update is available here

Just in case you were wondering about the title of this update (did you even notice it?) it's not just a gratifying sound. It actually stands for Morfy's magical, maniacal, 'mazing multi-marathon mayhem mupdate. I'll grant you that "mupdate" is a little bit weak but the reason for the title should become abundantly clear after this first demo.

Some of the most prestigious id records have always been the runs on Azure Agony. With no extra weapons and a flat, spread out style it makes for a pure bunny-fest from start to finish. The record has been hotly fought over by such legends as Justin, Evan, Ilkka, Markus and Jozsef but now, making the fourteenth improvement to the Easy Run, Kay Berntsen has gone one second better with an amazing 0:43. Is this unbeatable? I really couldn't say. What do you think, Joe?

Now it's marathon time. We don't just have a marathon for you. Or even two or three. Four, even, is slightly under the total. In fact we have five marathons for you today. Some very good, some pretty bad and one or two lurking in the middle ground.

First up we have two on dmc.

• George "Sidd" Dickeson has continued to cause confusion in #qdq, a situation that has been compounded by the return of Aleksander "Sidd" Osipov. I thought that George had two connections to the channel and was happily talking away to both of them for a good ten minutes before someone pointed out what an idiot I was being. :-) Anyway, he filled the empty Easy 100% marathon in 6:12 with some great play and original routes through most of the levels. The only downside was the very last twenty seconds where somehow.... you'll see.
• My Nightmare 100% marathon was kind of ropey to say the least. Soon after I did it (a couple of months ago) I improved it by thirty-four seconds to 9:33 but since dmc1m5 was a complete disaster I decided not to send it in at the time. But if there's a bandwagon rolling I'll always be the first to jump on the back so here it is.

Carl Tholin has always been "Mr rde", owning all the single player records and half the marathons on Jesse's excellent episode. Seems like half the marathons wasn't good enough for him.

• He improved Ilkka's Easy Run by nineteen seconds to 5:18 with a bowel-loosening display of bunnyless tricking and slow, straight running. I think this demo wins "marathon of the day".
• He also attacked the Nightmare 100% that Stefan had owned for three and a half years, just managing to find a few new shortcuts for a one hundred and eighty-nine second improvement to 15:25.

Marathon #5 is another "well, I wasn't going to send it in" effort, this time an improvement to his Easy Run of doe1 by Michael Hudson. There's quite a few rough edges in this 8:33 but he tries out quite a few new tricks and route tweaks that were missing from his previous run which is why this is fourteen seconds faster.

Now for three more demos on Runner's Delight levels.

• Carl on his own first as he improved his rd1m2 Nightmare 100% by four seconds to 2:20.
• Daniel Hanson and Jonny Andersson took a run around rd1m3 and took one, that's right ONE, second off their previous Easy 100% record to get 1:09.
• Then it was time for some sweet Hanson on Tholin action as they rubbed their firm, young bodies into rd1m4's empty Nightmare 100% slot, working their shafts until they finally ejaculated on the levels hooters in 1:08.

To try and distract you from the images that last demo write up has probably left in your head I'll mention that the bunny comparison page has been updated with new demos from Ivan Vladev, newcomer Robert Maglic and a very special new demo from Ripah. He out bunnied Markus to become the filthiest of the "filthy few" and take the world record on e2m1 with a time of 07.80367 seconds, an almost unreal 0.0005 seconds faster than Mr Taipale!

One last thing. If you're wondering about a record in our tables and can't be arsed to look it up, or maybe you want to see who has held a certain record in the past then get yourself into #qdq and have a talk with "mwh's only friend". He might not have much conversation but he knows a lot about the tables. For example, ask him recordbot: e4m7 er history and see what he has to say.

I'll leave you in peace now.

All demos download for this update is available here

Yup, he scares the crap out of me folks. Having said that, let's proceed with the update.

Alexander Osipov has joined the recent trend of making an SDA comeback, and has... well... made a comeback! The target for Total Osipovation was the easy 100% of e4m7. Alexander reclaimed his old record spot from Timo by 5 seconds to get this really slick time of 1:57. Put that in your pipe and smoke it Timo.

Luc and Pif de Mestre can't seem to stop making demos, excellent!

• The Dangerous Double de Mestres first owned the gravity challenged e1m8.
  • Daniel and Jonny's easy 100% was improved by one second to this 0:37, and soon after to this nice 0:36.
    
  • A normal gravity easy 100% table-filler was next in line for proper treatment, first getting this 0:35 and then a 0:34.
  
  
• Next victim for massive de Mestreage was the nightmare 100% of m_palace, ran 2 seconds faster than their previous to get this solid 1:22.
  
• Luc decided his whistle wasn't fully whetted after a few coops, so he sat down to make a table filler on his own. No suprise that he chose to make a nightmare 100% of royalwar to the tune of 2:23.

Weixing Ye is back in the house! And it comes as no shock that he has some further improvements for you on the apple of his eye, pagan3!

• The easy 100% was first to be worked, 1 second was shaved off in this 0:25 and a few days later to this great 0:24.
  
• Mr. Ye then further optimized his nightmare 100%, 4 seconds at first with this 0:24 and then to this 0:23. Good work Weixing!

And I'm spent.